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There are quite a number of things to get through for this week, but if you'll indulge me for a moment, I'd first like to address an article that appeared in the Globe entitled "Is the Huffington Post the Future of Journalism?" The writer should have just yanked the paper out of the typewriter carriage (don't forget the carbon paper, too -- but save that, you can reuse it), crumpled it up, and started over. But maybe I should just jot down this complaint in a letter to the Globe's editor? With a stamp? Now back to business. Or as we like to call it around here, the 21st-century news business.

It was just another day on February 26 until 15:26, when Train 92 derailed west of Toronto resulting in the tragic death of three VIA Rail locomotive engineers. In my own 32-year career in Canada's railways, I have never experienced so much pain and sadness and, like my colleagues, so much helplessness in a position of so much authority.